TY - JOUR AU - Chi, Ed AU - Mytkowicz, Todd PY - 2021/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems Using Information Theory JF - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media JA - ICWSM VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Poster Papers DO - 10.1609/icwsm.v2i1.18639 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/18639 SP - 178-179 AB - <p>Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing any underlying document objects? Does this distributed process really provide a way to circumnavigate the traditional categorization problem with ontologies? We analyze a social tagging site, namely del.icio.us, with information theory in order to evaluate the efficiency of this social tagging site for encoding navigation paths to information sources.</p> ER -